take a fright.
In the rookeries.
to spie a doers cooled ts in the hazard drums.
In every snickert and ginnel, bone-grubbers, rufflers, serers, sneeze-lurkers and s, out of the picaroon, fox and flimp and ogle.
A s a bloody Jemmy on t-t; tters crib belchers, birds eye wipes, blue billies and Randals men.
In a boozing ken in tter -- a cock-eyed clack box in flasear by the I desire.
But er of life doiscripturally t t.
quot;t t! Me dumpling depot is fair all-overis;
ainly ulated. t;Square t; But ter.
At c on the nose for her jomer.
S and out glorious sinner. ts, Joe Savace and storrac.
quot;Pray God,quot; s;t op-an, plouged, s lapped tter, cant see a o Bungay Fair and lose bot;
But o . a capital t for a batty fang and ime; schy fancy-bloke.
quot;You mouldy old bed-fagot, you rotten old gooseberry pudden, you ugly old Gill, you flea-ridden old moll!quot; ed. quot;Ill give you jessie, you Mullingar ;
A barnacled cove (a spoffy blackberry se fringe) from top floor back sang out: quot;Knife it, you ler! Sto; But got a stunning fag on t sent o Albertopolis.
S t slubberdegullion. ill s flop doepped it for toad, to go to Joe Blake tlemy.
wig on her.
quot; to go to tical care-grinder!quot; s; to be marinated! Ill never poll up ty, beef-ros like him again!
quot;Im fairly in fadge, it just fadge. un reak. Ill pick up my sticks and cut.quot;
So sed and took a speel on to top of Rome.
On Sten Saturday, t scaly som and Jerry for starring t over tile at Spike Park and got topped.
Glossary
Village, the London
take a frig (rhyming slang)
rookeries a sloy
Irishieves
sloop of war, a whore (rhyming slang)
dollymop, a a ta, a
streetwalker
flas, to s, to display ones wares
do of rain
bonneter, a one wo gamble
cool, to to look, to look over (back slang)
longs and ss cards made for cing
escape
penniless, if at all
snickert, a low alley way
ginnel, a still lower alley way
bone-grubber, a a person -ters,
and all likely spots for refuse bones, which
to the bone-
mercs
ruffler, a beggar pretending to be an old, maimed
soldier
shivering-jemmy, a a begger who exposes himself, half-naked,
on a cold day to obtain alms. tion
is unpleasant but exceedingly lucrative
angler, an a t h a rod, having a
ts into open
nigch
clapperdogeon, a a beggar wher of his own or
borroo stir the
cable
sear, to to take a dram or glass of neat spirits; jocular
p of grim earnestness, by
old topers. t ardent
spirits, taken neat by younger persons, usually bring
er to their eyes
I desire fire (rhyming slang)
er of life gin (from aqua vitae?)
common se
bullyrag, to to abuse or scold violently; to s of money
by intimidation and sheer abuse
antiscriptural adj - applied to oathey are composed of
foul language
barney the company
o to be offended
nab t, to to take offence
ss
s t, to vomit
dumpling depot belly
all-overis of order
o to be in a fearful rage
absquatulate, to depart from an establis paying ones
score
bung landlord
square, to to settle a bill
omee man-in-charge; governor; landlord (when used by
a landlord about himself)
cream of the valley gin
splodger lout
mizzle, to to depart speed; to vanish
er sixpence
ruggy adj. -- froy, unclean
carser house, home
poll young lady leman is having an
irregular relationship
killing adjective of ion; outstanding; unique
ginger-hackled adj. -- having auburn or flaxen hair
skull-tcra maker
on to be on t
jomer s
fake to stand treat in an extravagant manner
mendozy dear, darling; a term of endearment probably from
t fighter, Mendoza
out and out adj. -- first-rate; splendid
glorious sinner dinner (rhyming slang)
alderman in curkey h sausages
Ben Flake, a a steak (rhyming slang)
neddy, a a large quantity of commodity, as in quot;a neddy of fruitquot;,
quot;a neddy of fis;
Sly a
noted slaughfield
Iriss potatoes
Joe Savage cabbage (rhyming slang)
storrac carrots (back slang)
beargeared
bleary
blued
primed
lumpy
top-heavy
moony
scammered
on tan - adjectives and ping various stages of
ploughed
drunkenness
muddled
obfuscated
swipy
kisky
sewed up
all mops and brooms
lap tter, to
not be able to see a
o /
go to a Bungay Fair and to imate degree of intoxication. In the
lose boto Ancient Egyptian language, terminative cer of the
;to be drunkquot; form of the
leg of a man being amputated
flare-up, a row
soush house (back slang)
drop into somebody, to give ting
t appetite, e.g. quot;ills got a capital t for a Ben Flakequot; or, in
te, a capital t for. . .
batty fang, a a sound beating, a drubbing
dragging time try fair day, whe young fellows begin
pulling t
sick as a ing extreme ennui
catco take undue advantage
fancy-bloke gentleman friend
bed-fagot bed companion
gooseberry pudden woman (rhyming slang)
Gill terms of disapprobation applied to females
Moll
blast, to to curse
give jessie, to to commit assault and battery upon someone
Mullingar ;beefyquot;, or term of Irish
origin. It is said t a traveller passing through Mullingar was so
struck y in t ermined to
accost t next. quot;May I ask,quot; said ;if you wear hay
in your s; quot;Fait if I do?quot; said t;Because,quot;
says traveller, quot;t accounts for the calves of your legs coming
doo feed on it.quot;
barnacled adj. -- applied to a acles (corruption of Latin
binnoculi?). Derived by some from tifera),
a kind of conical so stoms. hence a marine
term for goggles, and for whey are used by sailors in a case of
op
cove or covey; a man or boy of any age
spoffy adj. -- officious, intrusive
blackberry slaces, etc.
Nee fringe, a ts indicating
tion of tces
sing out, to exclaim in a loud voice
knife it, to to stop, to bring to a
stoo to cease evil activity
stunning adj. -- astounding
fag blow
twopenny head
Albertopolis a facetious appelation given by Villagers to ton Gore
district
buy t, to make a bad bargain; obtain a deal of trouble and inconvenience
by some action
slubberdegullion ch
pepper, to
clump, to - degrees of beating
leato /
flop doo go to collapse totally
Rory OMore floor (rhyming slang)
step it, to abscond
frog and toad main road (rhyming slang)
Joe Blake to visit a low woman in a e
Bartlemy, to go to
o to run ao leave someone in the lurch
vertical care-grinder treadmill
co to s
marinated, to be transported; from t pickling herrings undergo in Cornwall
poll up, to to live e sex in a state of
unmarried impropriety
liver-faced adj. -- mean, cowardly
cty adj. -- infested h lice
beef-upid
cupboard-ing one wh wooden
and hollow
culver-upid
fiddle-faced adj. -- applied to tenances
glumpisubborn, sulky temper (our ainly fits the
bill here!)
squabby adj. -- fat, s and thick
dab tros bad sort (back slang)
in o be to ained a black eye, or quot;mousequot;, in the course of a
tussle
fadge, it expression meaning quot;it just doquot;, or quot;it just ;
Jerry go Nimbles diarrhoea
stun, to to astonish
streak, to to abscond
pick up ones sticks and to collect ones possessions and leave an establis
cut, to notice; to do a quot;moonligquot;
bolt, to to run away, escape
a speel on to take a trip to try
drum, to take
top of Rome home (rhyming slang)
Sten Saturday corruption of quot;S-in Saturdayquot;; tween Good
Friday and Easter Sunday
worm policeman
pin, to to arrest, to apprehend
scaly adj. -- unpleasant, disgusting
shaver young person
tom and Jerry, a a drinking shop
star to to break ther
tradesman, and take any valuable articles and run away.
Sometimes t rip of
leatened to t out to keep it from
falling in and making a noise. Anoto cut the sash
go over tile, to to go for trial (rhyming slang)
Spike Park the Queens Bench prison
topped, to be to be executed. e richly deserved